Repeat show = recycled commentary!
American Top 40: The 80s - November 16, 2013
This week's presentation: November 15, 1986
A note about this show's first run by Premiere back in 2007: At first, I didn't think this was a former Flashback show, but then I realized that it indeed was. I remember playing Donkey Kong 64 while listening to that show when it was run on Flashback. Coincidentally, I was playing that game when that show came on, and I didn't even know what show they were going to do until it came on. And I hadn't played that game in nearly two years. Anyway...
Ugh, I did not like this song. I was glad I didn't have to hear it.
Me too. Definitely one of my favorite Glass Tiger hits (maybe because Bryan Adams sings backup)
Another song I was glad not to hear. Definitely a teenybopper hit.
Yeah, but I liked "This Is The Time" much better.
Mine too.
Yeah, Crockett did a good job with this song. I liked it and it takes me back to the fall of 1986, a very good era for me.
Yeah, people sure got tired of it fast.
Yeah, nothing great. This was a no-show on R&R, but they played this song on Chicago's Z95 occasionally.
Yeah, but I thought this was pretty good.
No way! This is one of my faves from him. I liked his tender love ballads like this, and "There'll Be Sad Songs".
"Nurse, Ronny, not nuke!" Yeah, this is probably my third favorite from the "Invisible Touch" album.
Yeah, I wonder why they gave up when they were still hitting the Top Ten? They had a few mid-charters in the late 1980s, including "Didn't Know It Was Love" and "Across The Miles". Both were pretty good.
Yeah, "Dominoes" and "Wot's It To Ya" both came close to the Top Ten, but what radio station plays them anymore?
I vaguely remember hearing this song when I was trying to beat the big boss in the "Frantic Factory" in my DK64 game. A pretty good song, but I liked "American Storm" better.
This song peaked at #8 on the R&R chart, but didn't get any higher than #17 on Billboard. Four years before, such an event was very commonplace, but by 1986, it was more noticeable.
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE WAS BETTER THAN THIS??!! I think it would be in your best interest to retract that statement!
Yeah, I hated "Burning Down The House". This song was pretty good, though.
Yeah, I liked this song, and also their 1981 song "Magic Power". I think they had a minor hit in early 1983 called "World Of Fantasy", which I also liked.
Yes it has. Several #1s from 1987 have sort of fallen into obscurity.
I liked their follow-up better, the one-week wonder called "Skin Trade".
Yeah, this song was sort of tarnished by overplay.
Yeah, this was a really good song. Too bad it didn't do better.
Yeah, I liked most of their stuff, too.
25: Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force - All Cried Out (17) - good song but I prefer their #1's from 1987[/quote]
Not me! This was my top song of the 1980s. As far as I know, neither of those songs made it, especially "Head To Toe".
I sort of liked this song. Stevie Wonder's "Skeletons" from a year later reminded me a lot of this song.
I didn't really like this song, but I'm glad that cherry-flavored Pez came back last year.
I was surprised this song was still on the chart, since it had fallen off of the R&R chart the week before, I think. Must have been a big sales hit.
NOT! Easily my least favorite Bangles hit (well, except maybe for "Be With You". My favorite would probably be the very obscure "If She Knew What She Wants", which I heard at Burger King this past weekend.
Yeah, I was glad this spent a week at #1 on the R&R charts, even though it didn't quite make it on Billboard.
Well, "Caught Up In The Rapture" does sound a lot like this, but not her next hit "Same Ole Love". Besides, they're not in A-minor.
I liked this. A very tender ballad.
This song is OK, but very overplayed.
Yeah, this is a song that was inadvertently omitted from my Top 1000 of the 1980s (the one that has an ongoing guessing game). I didn't like it very well. Sounds a little like "Neutron Dance" by the Pointer Sisters.
Actually, I thought it was better than many songs by the Cars, especially the overplayed ones (i.e. "Shake It Up" and "Drive").
Meh, that song was sort of dull. I still like this song a little, but it is very overplayed. Most of the last #1 songs of 1986 are.
Well, it just so happens that on his album from that year, he had a song called "Love Will Find A Way", one of the few unreleased cuts from "Can't Slow Down" and "Love Will Conquer All" sounded very similar. Only difference is that it didn't have the backup singer, Marla something-or-other.
This is one of my favorite Toto songs, up there with "99" and "I Won't Hold You Back"
UGH! Overplayed crap that I never liked in the first place. Why, oh why, couldn't they have released "Forest For The Trees" from the album instead?
Not overplayed anywhere around here, but it was definitely so in 1986. Liked it at first, but quickly grew tired of it.
I always liked this song, especially the part at the end, when he's giving his girlfriend the business.
Yeah, but I liked "The Glory Of Love" better.
This was when I realized that this was a former Flashback show, as I remember hearing the dedication. The person asked if Casey could play it in the last hour, and as he began playing it, Casey said, "Ready? Set? Go!" My opinion of the song - I liked it a lot when it was on the chart, but it has received a little overplay since then.
Meh, I never really liked it. The whistling misled people into thinking it was a song from a Western movie.
Me too, like the song that came before this, "Hyperactive". I'd rather hear this song than the grossly overplayed "Addicted To Love".
This is another song you don't hear very often anymore. I liked "Never Say Goodbye" and "Edge Of A Broken Heart" better. Both were no-shows on AT40, since they weren't released as singles.
I always thought that was "Two Chickens To Paralyze". Seriously, I did not like this song at all. His next two hits were worlds better. So was most of his other stuff.
Well, she's had some, but I don't know about many. But, of course, that's nothing more than my opinion.
Nah, I like "Don't You Want Me" and "Mirror Man" better. This one is good, though. Better than their follow-up, "I Need Your Lovin'".
Yeah, but I preferred the other two releases from "Third Stage". Too bad they didn't do any better than they did (although "We're Ready" did hit the Top Ten).
There were no songs I had never heard before either. If not for David & David being played on Z95, I probably wouldn't have recognized the David & David song either. The week it fell off the chart was the week I began listening to AT40 regularly.
I so hope they do 1984. There was a Flashback show from next week in 1984 and besides, that's the year they've gone the longest without doing, although it's been awhile since they've done 1987 as well, and there was a late-November AT40 Flashback show as well, so it could be either one. But I hope they don't do that one - there was a Long Distance Dedication on that one that was so depressing. After such a depressing week (well, the beginning anyway), I definitely don't need that. But I guess we'll find out in two more days.
EDIT: Actually, we all know what they're doing next week - it's a year that's been way underplayed in 2013!